Tuesday, December 09, 2008

As if you had any reason to smile at the DMV, the state of Indiana now bans you from smiling on your drivers license photo. From the Louisville Courier Journal:

The Bureau of Motor Vehicles has imposed new restrictions on anything -- from smiling to wearing glasses and scarves and hats -- that would hamper facial recognition software from distinguishing one driver's looks from another's.

It's all to let facial recognition software identify you from your picture.

This from the state that decided the best way to fight complaints of long waits at their BMV offices was to simply remove the clocks. (Louisville Courier Journal)

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Terry "Tex" Turner spent 7 years covering Washington for 100 client television stations across the United States.
Since then, he has been a webcasting & social media pioneer with a record of expanding audiences, market share, and audience loyalty.